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A Confusing Series of Events Following the Boeing 737-9 MAX Losing Its Plug Door
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What a week it’s been in the airline industry. First there was the Japan Airlines A350 landing on a Dash-8, and now, we have the 737-9 MAX deciding to self-open a window (er, plug door) on…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland International Airport: Denver’s Mile High Plans, Air Canada’s Top Ten Performance
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United Submits First Plans for Denver Site United Airlines plans to have the first facility — a new simulator building — on its recently-acquired 113-acre site in Denver functional by fall of 2027. Because this…
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The Quiet Genius of ICAO Airport Codes
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I usually have a couple of these kinds of evergreen posts ready to go in case I’m not able to finish a more newsy post in time, so, here we are…. I’ll have the currently-unfinished…
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Blame the Design of Midway Airport for Southwest’s Holiday Struggles
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Happy 2024 everybody! If you flew this holiday season, you probably had nothing go wrong at all. That was the case for nearly everyone… except for those who flew Southwest to and from Chicago’s Midway Airport just…
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Airlines We Lost 2023
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Where does the time go? It is the last post of the year, and that means it’s time to honor those airlines that didn’t quite make it to see 2024. After last year’s relatively anemic list,…
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Reviewing Your 2023 Predictions and Making Your 2024 Picks
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It’s the most wonderul time of the year… when we get to go over all your predictions from last year and see how you did. Of course, we need to remember that when you all wrote…
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Cranky on the Web: Southwest’s Customer of Size Policy
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No, Southwest Airlines’ ‘customer of size’ policy isn’t new – VerifyThis was a weird one that came out of left field. Why was everyone freaking out over a policy that’s been around for awhile? I have no…
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Cranky Weekly Review Presented by Oakland International Airport: Good News for Southwest, Bad News for Southwest, Alaska Raises its Baggage Fee
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Good News: Southwest Finds Labor Peace in the Cockpit Southwest Airlines and its pilots’ union finally have come to a preliminary agreement, ending several months of back-and-forth negotiations between the two and increasingly frequent threats…
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2023 Flying Summary
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I’m done for the year, so might as well get this party started. Another year, another weird-looking map. The multiple short haul trips are somewhat obscured by the Atlanta and Kahului runs. Miles: 15,721 (13,167 last year)Segments:…
